Robert De Niro

The “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary special violated a central show-business tenet -- always leave them wanting more -- and got away with it. The three-and-a-half hour telecast tried to do too much, but nostalgia was a powerful incentive to keep watching. If you turned away, you might miss an old favorite. The reunion shrewdly saved “Wayne’s World” (and Mike Myers and Dana Carvey) for the last half-hour. Along the way, there were golden moments in the sprawling telecast to justify the time spent. The low point was Eddie Murphy’s decision not to try humor. He may have saved “SNL,” as Chris Rock said, but Murphy was a dead spot in the...

Alternative-movie offerings are plentiful this fall. In addition to festivals featuring indie and foreign films — the Feminist Film Festival, the EROS gay film festival, the Festival of Ibero American Cinema, the Manhattan Short Film Festival — there will...

Hollywood has spent some time in Connecticut over the years. Some big box-office hits have been filmed here. Some flops have, too. But what has Connecticut looked like to movie goers?
Some movies shot and set here take a jaundiced look at Connecticut....

The Academy Awards bring out the critic in everyone. It starts when the nominations are announced — "Whaddya mean, Ben Affleck wasn't nominated?" — and lasts long after Oscar night. That annual ritual takes place Sunday night and will be...

Blythe Danner feels right at home on stage in the Berkshire hills.After a 12-year absence, the actress is returning to the Williamstown Theatre Festival that shaped her early career nearly 40 years ago and where she continued to return over the decades....

Tears well in his eyes. He removes his glasses. And Walter Cronkite speaks: "From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official. President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard time, two o'clock Eastern Standard time, some 38 minutes ago."
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This year's Venice Film Festival will include Kristen Stewart in a sci-fi romance, Idris Elba at war and a thriller starring Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson, as well as potentially awards-worthy performances from Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp and Jake...

The last time Jennifer Lawrence got domestic in a David O. Russell movie, she ended up detonating a science oven, a.k.a. a microwave (warning: explicit language), in "American Hustle." Presumably she'll have better luck around the house in...

If the ghosts of Frank Sinatra and Liberace were still hanging around the Riviera Hotel and Casino on Monday morning, they wouldn't have found a seat at the bar.
Crowds squeezed onto barstools and milled about the casino floor saying goodbye to "The...

The cast of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFellas" will reunite for the film's 25th anniversary at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The festival announced Wednesday that a re-mastered version of the gangster film classic will close the 14th annual Tribeca...

NBC is already making a big deal of the 40th anniversary of "Saturday Night Live" — and now it's making it a little bigger.
The network revealed late Thursday that it's expanding Sunday's "SNL 40th Anniversary Special" by 30...

"Saturday Night Live" plans to celebrate its 40th anniversary this month, with NBC confirming a long list of participants during the Super Bowl. The massive reunion special will air on Feb. 15.
The biggest surprise is Eddie Murphy's planned...

"IT'S LIKE an old movie star. You're really creating an eyelid. It's also Greta Garbo makeup and Marlene Dietrich. That's why, with these kind of eyes, you can never do Botox. I did it once, and it was awful ... you look like some relative that...

A director likes to be in control -- it’s basically in the job description. The same could be said for a politician, particularly one who’s been leader of the free world. Put the two together on one project and, well, there’s no guarantee they’ll be...

Top management at Sony Pictures Entertainment are feeling the walls close in on them.
Continued fallout over the Nov. 24 cyberattack that released derogatory missives not meant for public consumption, combined with the decision to cancel the Christmas...

Robert De Niro looks to be headed for a joyous reunion.
While promoting a documentary about his father in Rome on Monday, the 71-year-old actor said he's going to reteam with Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russell for "Joy," a movie about the...

If Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon were even 7 percent less amusing, "The Trip to Italy" would have no reason to exist, even with its casually gorgeous scenery and shattering close-ups of seafood pasta fresh out of the kitchen.
Like its...

You’d expect a Harold Ramis memorial to be funny given that the guy basically invented modern American comedy in his work from Second City and “SCTV” in 1960s and ‘70s through “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “Caddyshack,” “Stripes,” “Ghostbusters”...